Your Life in Poetry! How to write from one’s experience in the city and suburbs.
Go beyond nature and love poetry to explore how you live and work in the suburb/city. Participants each week can expect to learn about basic poetry elements, such as line, image, point of view, and rhythm/music, as well as workshop poems each class as a group. Students will also learn how the themes of suburb/city can be used to create poetry that has relevance and purpose for readers and editors. By the end of the class, participants will learn how to go beyond their normal subjects for poems, as well as revise at least one poem.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Writing About Suburb/City
- Breaking lines in Poetry
- Creating imagery in Poetry
- Point of View in Poetry
- Music/Lyricism in Poetry
Time requirements
- Requires two to three hours a week preparing for each session.
Materials
- All reading materials will be provided.
Who should take this workshop?
- This poetry workshop is for beginning and intermediate poets who want to broaden their subject matter and improve their work through the workshop critique process. Participants can write poems on any theme; they do not need to be suburb/city related.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.